Search & salvage of shipwrecks
Ocean Infinity confirms that it has found ARA San Juan, the Argentine Navy submarine which was lost on 15 November 2017. In the early hours of 17 November, after two months of seabed search, Ocean Infinity located what has now been confirmed as the wreckage of the ARA San Juan. The submarine was found in…
DOS is working with Ocean Infinity on the seabed search for the lost submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) which disappeared off the East coast of Argentina. ARA San Juan (S-42) is a TR-1700-class diesel-electric submarine which has been in service with the Argentine Navy since 19 November 1985. In early November 2017, she was part of a navy exercise…
DOS release footage of the British ocean liner R.M.S Orcades RMS Orcades, 23, 456 tons, was an ocean liner and a cruise ship belonging to the Orient Line. She was on a voyage from Capetown to Liverpool, unescorted, in October 1942. She carried 741 passengers, 290 crew, 36 gunners, transporting 3000 tons of mixed cargo and…
DOS releases new footage of the S.S. City Of Cairo HD video footage of the wreck S.S. City Of Cairo, laying at 5150m. She was discovered by Deep Ocean Search in 2012. The SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was a mixed cargo and passenger ship belonging to Ellerman Lines and was on a voyage…
Deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck! DOS world record for the deepest salvage of cargo from a shipwreck has been published on Guinness website. Abstract: The British passenger steamship SS City of Cairo was torpedoed on 6 November 1942 by a German submarine and sank with the loss of 104 lives. In April 2015, it was…
Wreck S.S. City Of Cairo – World record salvage at 5150m! Under contract to the UK Ministry of Transport, DOS recovered close to a hundred tons of silver coins from steam ship City Of Cairo laying at a depth of 5150m – a world depth record. The SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was…
DOS announce finding the British liner R.M.S. Orcades The Malaysian Government recently announced that Deep Ocean Search Limited (DOS) and Ixblue were to be awarded a search contract for MH370 to deploy DOS’s survey vessel John Lethbridge and its comprehensive ultra deep water assets and experienced personnel. DOS’s team have unique experience of the work…
DOS announces finding the steam ship City Of Cairo. The SS City of Cairo (Captain William Rogerson) was a mixed cargo and passenger ship belonging to Ellerman Lines and was on a voyage from Bombay to England, via Cape Town and Recife, Brazil, unescorted, in late 1942. She carried 296 souls of which 136 were…